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Sweett digs for victory with Chinese deal

Beneath the water in Victoria Harbour, a new rail tunnel will be taking shapeGhetu Daniel/Getty

The only quantity surveyor listed on the London stock market has landed a key role in a fourth rail tunnel crossing between Hong Kong Island and Kowloon.

Sweett will provide cost-management services for a consortium led by Aecom, the American civil engineer, that is building the latest rail tunnel for MTR, Hong Kong’s mass-transit company.

More than half of Sweett’s £100 million pipeline of work comes from the Asia-Pacific region. It follows its acquisition three years ago of Widnell, which is based in Hong Kong and has operations in several cities in mainland China.

The latest contract includes work on a two-kilometre tunnel running under Victoria Harbour from Causeway Bay in Hong Kong to Hung Hom in Kowloon. Due to be completed in 2020, it…